Advice for IB first-years

Or school in general, really.

Back to Hogwarts

It’s officially September. Students everywhere are mourning the death of summer and the advent of the new school year. That is…

What Every High School Senior Is Thinking

What if I don’t get into my top-choice university? What if I don’t get into my second choice? What if I don’t get accepted to any universities? What if I don’t know anyone at university? What if nobody likes me there? What if I never talk to my high school…

Types of Lies

1. The lies that we forgive.

The lies that change wars

Into blood red roses in the snow

And pain into ink

Splattered around the edges of a page

Rationalize

We spend so much of our lives dreaming of other planets

That we seem to forget we live on one ourselves.

We shrug off the idea of otherworldly beings,

But are lonely at the concept of solitude.

Rare Insight

Why are we surprised by the differences?

We are not born perfect souls;

We must take time to develop ourselves

Before judging others’ minds like our own

Making Every Year Count

Twelve months. Fifty-two weeks. Three hundred sixty-five days.

I’ve done this routine sixteen times. And now I realize, perhaps, I’ve only gone with the flow. If the flow brings me down, I go down … until the flow pushes me up again.

The Monstrosity That Is Decision-Making

Curiosity

Will get the best of you

Paucity

Will make you doubt the truth

Raucity

Stick Children

The bent photograph

Removed from the broken frame

Mother’s bleeding body

Abandoned on the floor

Sticky children

The Grudge

The black goo oozes

Filling the floor

The room

A sticky paste

Light shines from afar

Willing you to run